1.9 Health and Safety Flashcards
What legal obligation do employers have?
To ensure that strict health and safety legislation is implemented
What are employees required to follow?
All procedures to eliminate health hazards and prevent accidents to themselves and others
What does lost time through injuries and investigated accident do?
Cost money and could affect the reputation of a business
What is an employer or an appointed health and safety officer responsible for?
Carrying out a range of tasks that help to prevent accidents and injuries
What must health and safety officers ensure?
All equipment, tools and machinery are safe to work with and are fitted with safety guards or emergency stop buttons
What needs to happen to ensure safety in working practises?
- Equipment, tools & machinery regularly maintained and tested
- Training and adequate supervision
- Ergonomically designed work station
- Dangerous items stored safely
- Accident reporting systems
- Welfare facilities
- Breaks
What are these practices designed for?
To keep people safe and free from harm, and are much the same across schools, colleges and industry
What are some safe working practices in school/ college workshops?
- No eating or drinking
- PPE must be worn
- Long hair tied back
- Work areas and walkways kept neat
- Spillages must be reported
- Breakages or damaged tools report
- Hands kept away from cutting blades
What is the Health and Safety at Work Act?
The primary piece of legislation covering workplace health and safety in Britain
What does the Health and Safety at Work Act state?
Employers must protect the health, safety and welfare of all employees to carry out risk assessments and put sensible measures in place to contol risk
What does Health and Safety at Work Act place an obligation on?
Employees to cooperate and report inadequacies in health and safety arrangements and not to interfere with or misuse anything provided to assure health, safety or welfare at work
What is the Health and Safety Executive do?
Responsible for enforcing the HSWA
What do employers need to do to comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations?
Must carry out risk assessments to prevent, reduce or control their workers or adjacent workers exposure to substance that may be hazardous
What do hazardous textile substances include?
- Dyestuffs
- Bleaches
- Chemicals used to apply finishes to fabrics
- Adhesives
- Cleaning materials
What must hazardous substances carry?
A clear warning label that identifies what the hazard is
When is it mandatory to have a health and safety polically that formally records risk assessments?
I’m organisations where there are five or more employees
What must the employer or designated health and safety officer identify?
Potential hazards associated with the manufacturing process that might cause harm to people
What are the 4 stages of risk management?
- Identify hazards
- Assess the risks
- Plan and implement control measures
- Monitor and review
What happens in the identify hazards stage?
- Consider likely risks
- Use results of workplace inspections
- Ude incident reports
- Analyse risks of new machinery/ equipment
- Analyse risks in new or changed manufacturing processes
What happens in the assess the risks stage?
- Use risk assessment proforma
- Consider how severe the impact of the risk will be
- Rank the risks according to its likelihood of occurring
What happens in the plan and implement control measures stage?
- Change equipment or materials to remove a hazard
- Isolate people from hazard
- Improve training
- Change working methods/ systems
- Use PPE
- Set review dates
What happens in the monitor and review stage?
- Regularly monitor and review the effectiveness of control measures
- Check wether the situation has changed
- Check whether there are new risks emerging
What risk can handling heavy rolls of fabric cause?
- Back injury from lifting
- Foot or head injury if rolls fall from height